• kuneho@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In Hungarian it’s the same with “home” in particular. You say “I’m home.”. In Hungarian, I too say the exact same thing: “Otthon vagyok” (I’m home).

    Your other two example works the same, you won’t say in Hungarian “I’m school” (Iskola vagyok (it means I am literally a school)). But you say “IskoláBAN vagyok” (I’m at school) or “PostÁN vagyok” (I’m at the post office. Notice the suffix in this case is completely different, but that’s another story of Hungarian)

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      4 months ago

      Yup, probably something that is the same in many languages though I can only speculate. It’s also the same in swedish any way.

        • Hule@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Confirming for Romanian:

          • house = casă
          • home = acasă
          • i’m home = sunt acasă
          • i’m at school = sunt la şcoală

          Home is probably special :)

    • force@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      In Hungarian it comes from literally combining “ott” (there) + “honn”/“ház” (house/home). “itthon” is the same way except with “itt” (here).